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To: gulf1609

I’m not buying the marksman crap. His shots were all “across the room” distance, no skills needed other than pulling a trigger.


28 posted on 06/17/2016 7:32:55 AM PDT by wrench
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To: wrench

The gun shop that sold him the firearms also gave some free range time with a purchase. Another shop patron on the range said Mateen was just firing as fast as he could, that he actually hit some wire or support and damaged the target holder.
As you point out, this makes the attempted comparison by the MSM of this murdering POS to the 99.999% of us gun owners who strive for tight shot groups and murdered no one last week even more absurd.


30 posted on 06/17/2016 7:39:04 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: wrench

Early on in one of the earliest news reports, they played a video of of a girl recording the melee on her phone (she later died). In the background sound there was rapid gunfire (I haven’t heard at a gun range). I thought, “Huh, he must have gotten a FULLY automatic from his underground buds”. NOW, looking back, that must have been auto firing from the responding officers I was hearing. That explains a lot. I’d love to have the recovered ammo tested to see which ones actually came from Mateen the Swine. From process of elimination, we’d know how many patrons were actually hit from the spray of “friendly fire”.


35 posted on 06/17/2016 7:51:30 AM PDT by TennesseeGirl (“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong” Voltaire)
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To: wrench
He shot an officer dead center in the head. If the officer hadn't been advancing with his head down a bit, the bullet would have impacted between his eyes. Instead his head was angled down enough that his Kevlar helmet saved him.

Here is a link to an image of his helmet afterwards, and a story showing the officer with the head injury.

That was marksmanship by the perp. In the dark with officers shooting at him.

http://fox8.com/2016/06/12/police-helmet-saves-officers-life-in-tragic-orlando-shooting/

http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/13/you-can-now-see-the-police-officer-shot-in-the-head-saved-by-his-helmet-during-the-orlando-terrorist-attack/

67 posted on 06/17/2016 10:34:17 AM PDT by Thud
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